Water-supplying device for locomotive-tenders.



APYLIUATION FILED OOT. 10 1908.

Patented June 29, 1909.

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UNITE sa JOSIAH L. WISSI NGER, OF GALLITZIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER-SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR LOCOMOTIVE-TENDERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSIAH L. lVIssINcnn,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 10, 1908.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Serial No. 457,150.

to the locomotive, and 7 the carrying wheels tor the tender. The carrying wheels 7 travel a citizen of the United States, and resident of upon the usual railroad rails 8.

Gallitzin, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Water-Supplying Devices for ocomotive-Tenders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of devices for supplying water to locomotive tenders wherein are employed a water scoop beneath the locomotive tender, and. having communication therewith, and a water trough with which the scoop is adapted to cooperate, said trough being located between the rails of a railroad track and being adapted to contain water; whereby, when the scoop is lowered into the trough, water will be taken therefromby the scoop and delivered to the tender during the travel of the tender over the trough. Heretofore, during the operation of the scoop in the trough in delivering water therefrom to the tender, much water was splashed from the trough by the scoop to the front and sides of the scoop, which splashed water was not delivered to the tender, but discharged upon the roadbcd. This not only resulted in the loss of the water, but it was also injurious to the roadbed and a further objection to the water being thus splashed from the trough has been the accumulation of ice along the sides of the trough when the weather was cold enough to freeze the splashed water.

The object of my invention is to overcome the objections just mentioned, and l attain my object by providing a watcr-rccciving pan carried with the scoop and positioned adjacent thereto, to receive the water splashed from the trough by the scoop and not delivered to the tender.

The precise nature of the invention will be hereinafter fully described and particularly claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is an end elevation, partly broken away, of a portion of a locomotive tender provided with a water supplying device embodying my invention, showing, in section, a railroad having a water trough between the rails thereof. Fig. 2 is a vertical section as on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the water-receiving pan, in section as on the line of Fig. 2. 6 designates a portion ot a locomotive tender adapted to carry water to be supplied 1 l l i l l l l l l tender 6.

Located centrally between the rails 8 and extending some distance along the traekway,

is a trough 9 adapted to contain water to be supplied to the tender 6 during its travel upon the rails 8 over the trough 9. T he tender 6 carries a scoop 10, the rearward end of which communicates wth and is pivotally connected as at 11 to a pipe 12, which leads to the tender 6, whereby communication is established between the scoop 10 and the tender 6. The scoop 10 is adapted to be lowered on its pivot 11 so that its forward end will enter the trough t), as shown, when it is desired to supply water therefrom to the The scoop 10 is also adapted to be raised upon its pivot 11 when it is not cooperating with the trough 9. This raising and lowering of the forward end of the scoop 10 is accomplished by a bell crank lever 13 pivotally mounted, as at 14, 011 a bracket 15 of the tender; one end of the bell crank lever 13 being connected by a link 16 and the other end of the bell crank lever being connected by. a rod 17 which may be operated in any dosirablc manner to raisc and lower the scoop 10.

The construction and operation of the parts thus far described are common and well known, and no detailed description thereof is deemed necessary herein.

The tcndcr 6 includes a pair of channel irons, 18, and secured to these channel irons in arc the upper ends of plates 1.), which constitute two substantially vertically arranged nalls located one on each side of thewater scoop 1.0. Extending between the plates 19 is a water-rccciying pan 20, comprising the bottom 21, the inner wall 22, and the outer wall 23, the plates 19 constituting a portion of the outer wall of the pan. The inner wall 22 surrounds an openin 2-1 in the pan, and the outer wall 23 surrounds the inner wall 22 in spaced relation hereto, and the interior of the pan is formed between the walls 22 and 23. The pan 2O surrounds the scoop 10; that is to say, the scoop 10 is located within the opening 24, and is adapted to be raised and lowered therein to cooperate with the trough 9 in delivering water from the trough to the tender.

When the scoop 10 is lowered into the trough 9 to deliver water therefrom to the tender 6, during the forward travel of the tender, the water is not only delivered from the trough to the tender, but it is also splashed from the trough by the scoop forwardly and laterally of the scoop during the forward movement thereof, as indicated in the drawings. The pad is so located and positioned with relation to the trough 9 and scoop 10, that the water thus splashed from the trough 9 by the scoop 10 and not delivered to the tender 6 will be received within the pan 20 as shown, thus preventing the splashed Water from falling upon the roadbed laterally of the troug The bottom 21 of the pan 20 is inclined downwardly from the trough to the rearward end thereof, and the pan 20 is provided with a discharge opening 25 adjacent its rearward end and located above the trough 9, whereby water splashed from the trough as hereinbefore mentioned, and received within the pan 20, will flow to the rearward end thereof, and be discharged through the opening25 back into the trough 9.

I claim 1. In a water supplying device for locomo tive tenders, the combination with the tender, and the water scoop having communication with the tender, of a water-receiving pan carried with the scoop and positioned adjacent thereto to receive water splashed from an underlying trough by the scoop and not delivered to the tender during the travel thereof over said trough.

2. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with the tender, and the water scoop having communication with the tender, of a water-receiving pan having a discharge opening therein lo cated above an underlying trough, said pan being carried with the scoop and being positioned adjacent thereto to receive water splashed from the trough by the scoop and not delivered to the tender during the travel thereof over said trough.

3. In a water supplying device for locomo tive tenders, the combination with the tender, the water scoop having communication with the tender, of a water-receiving pan surrounding the scoop, said pan being carried with the scoop and positioned adjacent thereto to receive water splashed from an underlying trough by the scoop and not delivered to the tender during the travel thereof over said trough.

4. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with the tender, and the water scoop having commu nication with the tender, of a water receiving pan surrounding the scoop and having a discharge opening therein located above an underlying trough, said pan being carried with the scoop and positioned adjacent thereto to receive water splashed from the trough by the scoo and not delivered to the tender during t 1e travel thereof over said trough.

5. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with the tender, and the water scoop having communication with the tender, of a water-receiving pan having a bottom inclined downwardly from the front to the rearward end thereof and having a discharge opening therein adjacent the rearward end of the pan, said pan being carried with the scoop and positioned adjacent thereto to receive water splashed from an underlying trough by the scoop and not delivered to the tender during the travel thereof over said trough.

6. in a water supplying device for locomo tive tenders, the combination with the tender, and the water scoop having communication with the tender, of a air of substantialiy vertically arranged wal s carried by the tender and arranged one on each side of the scoop, and a water receiving pan extending between said walls and positioned adjacent the scoop to receive water splashed from an underlying trough by the scoop and not delivered to the tender during the travel thereof over said trough.

7. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with the tender and the water scoop having communication with the tender, of a plate carried with the scoop and positioned adjacent thereto to receive water splashed from an underlying trough by the scoop during the travel thereof over said trough and to deflect the splashed water back toward the trough.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature.

JOSIAH L. NISSINGER.

Witnesses:

WM. G. LEWIS. WM. A. MEANS. 

